My Drinking Game

Now I must admit (and I have mentioned before) that I play with a group of friends. Apart from the attraction of playing a great game, with mates there is another motivation.

You see 10 odd (ok maybe a fee more) years ago we were a little less responsible. Back then we would travel from wherever, to wherever, get a belly full while enjoying each other’s company, then head back home to wherever home is.

Admittedly home was much closer to wherever back then, but the point of my boozing story is, now (a decade or two down the track) we live on opposite sides of our spread out city, have partners and for most of us, children.

So the regular 1+ night a week physical catchup is out of the question. We maybe catch physically up once every 2-3 months.

Not PuG night, Pub night

However, every Friday night is still Pub night. No not PuG night, Pub night. We instance/raid with our favorite non-non-alcoholic beverage at our side.

Now I don’t think we have ever done a WoW drinking game explicitly, but near the end of TBC, Kara was starting to resemble one.

Often the next day we would hear apologies from healers about their literal faceroll healing. Yes, asleep at the WoW. Other of use would be more D&D, and I’m not talking Dungeons and Dragons, more Drunk and Disorderly.

Sarth 3DD (Drunken DPS)

It just makes me wonder if any guilds out there dissatisfied with easy mode WoLK raids are now organizing Drinking Achievement nights.

You know, less Sarth 3D (Dragons), more Sarth 3DD (Drunken DPS).

Achievements such as:

Drunk and Dis-Dragonly

Or

Slime Shotted

Or Maybe

Stormwind Slammers

Do you run with a (closet handicap)?

Have you?
Do you?
Do you run with a (closet handicap)?

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Does Fimlys really drink RedBull, or is it really Vodka Redbull shots?

Orange juice (without anything added) is my standard drink while raiding. I have it with a banana during our 5 min mid-raid break. It makes miracles for my level of attention! But then our raiding days are thursday-sunday-tuesday = work the following day…

Late friday/saturday night is different. I’ll never play drunk, but I can have a glass of wine or a drink and some snacks. Not so much that it will affect my gameplay seriously though. (At least I don’t think so :)).

Bah I know that this probably makes me sound utterly boring. But I guess that WoW is a drug in itself, I don’t need much more than the game to relax and excape reality for a while.

I tried to play drunk one time, the screen was blurry and everything was lower level than they should be. . . jk

I’ve only played wow drunk a couple times because normally those activities are mutually exclusive, but when I did, I didn’t notice a difference. My variety of wow isn’t heavy on the fine motor skills. Now trying to play enter sandman in rock band while drunk. . .whole other problem. . .

The officers of my guild (me included) tend to raid every friday night, together in lan, with loads of beer in the fridge. While there hasn’t been any active drinking game, it is not uncommon for explanations of boss tactics to become shorter and more obscure as the night progresses.

The performance of our players, unfortunately, degrades. I found this sad, and thought it worthy of an in depth analysis to construct myself a ui that would let me heal decently, even when drunk. I wrote about it on the plusheal fora:http://www.plusheal.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1262